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Passo Giau, Colle Santa Lucia, San Vito di Cadore, Italy, 1934.

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Tacoma sisters Ellis-Ayr (left) and Ethelynne "Skit" Smith (right), winners of first-ever women's national championships in downhill and slalom skiing, Paradise, Mount Rainier, April 14, 1935.

Courtesy Northwest Room at the Tacoma Public Library.

Information based on the article “Silver Skis Race on Mount Rainier (1934-1942, 1947-1948)” by John W. Lundin.

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Maine's highest mountain, Katahdin (AKA Baxter Peak) had its first complete ski (ski up and ski down) on March 10, 1926.

Robert L. M. Underhill and Arthur C. Comey (seen here on the summit) achieved this first ascent/descent round trip.

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Olympics.

Cortina, Italy, 1956.

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American alpine ski racer and environmentalist Andrea Mead Lawrence in Cortina, Italy, 1956.

She competed in three Winter Olympics: 1948, 1950, and after giving birth to three children, one more time in 1956.

She was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 1958.

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Austrian skier Toni Sailer stands with his sister Rosl and a soldier following his victory in the men's downhill competition at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy. 

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Bruno Burrini, from Madonna di Campiglio, competed in three events at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy.

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Italian alpine ski racer Zeno Colò, from Tuscany, just after lighting a torch from the Olympic flame at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina.

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Winter in Japan, 1953.

Photo by Roppei Mizuno

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Aspen, Colorado, 1957.

Photo by Toni Frissell, one of the 400-plus Kodachromes shot by her for the Sports Illustrated assignment "Skiing at Aspen, Colorado."

Frissell: great lady, great photographer, amazing life.

Read about her here.

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The Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela in 1906.

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela “The artist and his son” 1909.

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Skiers and seracs on Marmolada, Italian Dolomites, 1930s.

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Francesco Pasinetti shooting his first short film Enthusiasm in 1932, Italy.

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Summit magazine cover, November 1957.

They are back in business and very worth subscribing to.

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Aurora Borealis, 1906

by Arthur Heming